| MANSFIELDPARK | Austen novel whose heroine is Fanny Price |
| NORTHANDSOUTH | Elizabeth Gaskell novel whose heroine is Margaret Hale (5,3,5) |
| HOUSEOFMIRTH | "The ___", Edith Wharton novel whose heroine is Lily Bart (5,2,5) |
| PERSUASION | Jane Austen novel whose central character is Anne Elliot |
| MANSFIELD | - - - Park, 1814 Jane Austen novel in which the protagonist is Fanny Price (9) |
| PARK | 1814 Jane Austen novel in which the protagonist is Fanny Price (9,4) |
| APAIROF | See 161873 novel by Thomas Hardy whose heroine is Elfride Swancourt |
| APAIROFBLUEEYES | 1873 novel by Thomas Hardy whose heroine is Elfride Swancourt |
| BLUEEYES | 1873 novel by Thomas Hardy whose heroine is Elfride Swancourt (1,4,2,4,4) (see 16D) |
| BAITINGTOEXHALE | Flick whose heroine is lured to blow out? |
| LASONNAMBULA | 1831 opera by Vincenzo Bellini whose heroine is Amina (2,10) |
| ARMS | 1894 stage play by George Bernard Shaw whose heroine is |
| ARMSAND | And 17 1894 stage play by George Bernard Shaw whose heroine is Raina Petkoff (4,3,3,3) |
| ARMSANDTHEMAN | 1894 stage play by George Bernard Shaw whose heroine is Raina Petkoff |
| ANDTHEMAN | see 21dn, 1894 stage play by George Bernard Shaw whose heroine is Raina Petkoff |
| CATSEYE | Margaret Atwood novel whose heroine paints the Virgin Mary holding a marble |
| ANNA | Tolstoy novel whose heroine (spoiler alert) dies when she walks in front of a train (4, 8) |
| KARENINA | Tolstoy novel whose heroine (spoiler alert) dies when she walks in front of a train (4, 8) |
| JENNYWREN | Dolls' dressmaker in the novel Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens whose real name is Fanny Cleaver |
| EMMA | Forename of a heroine immortalised in a novel of the same name by the author who also created Elinor Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, Fanny Price and others (4) |
